Tobacco Reporting Regulations

Marginal note:Annual testing

• 14.2 (1) The report on the toxicity of cigarette emissions must set out the results of toxicity testing performed in accordance with subsection (6) on every brand of cigarettes that the manufacturer sells during a year.

• Marginal note:Presentation of results

  (2) The report must set out the date of manufacture of the cigarettes tested, the start and end dates of the tests and the name of the applicable official method prepared by the Department of Health that is used to perform the tests.

• Marginal note:Method of collecting data

  (3) The following official methods must be used to collect toxicity data:

  • (a) Official Method T-501, entitled Bacterial Reverse Mutation Assay for Mainstream Tobacco Smoke, prepared by the Department of Health, dated December 31, 2017;

  • (b) Official Method T-502, entitled Neutral Red Uptake Assay for Mainstream Tobacco Smoke, prepared by the Department of Health, dated December 31, 2017; and

  • (c) Official Method T-503, entitled In Vitro Micronucleus Assay for Mainstream Tobacco Smoke, prepared by the Department of Health, dated December 31, 2017.

• Marginal note:Number of replicates of sample

  (4) The results of the tests performed in accordance with paragraph (3)(a) or (b) must be based on three replicates of a sample.

• Marginal note:Sampling

  (5) The sampling of cigarettes for the purpose of toxicity testing is to be performed in accordance with the procedures referred to in paragraph 12(3)(a).

• Marginal note:Conditioning

  (6) The sample to be used for the purpose of toxicity testing is to be conditioned in an environment described in the standard referred to in subsection 14(3.1).

• Marginal note:Exception — identical cigarettes

  (7) A manufacturer is not required to submit a report in respect of a particular brand of cigarettes if the manufacturer

  • (a) submits a report under this section in respect of another brand of cigarettes; and

  • (b) identifies in the report all other brands of identical cigarettes, including the particular brand.

• Marginal note:Time limit

  (8) The manufacturer must submit the report on or before January 31 of the year after the year covered by the report.